Taylor Swift - Biography - IMDb Taylor Swift Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (5) | Trivia (59) | Personal Quotes (20) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) Taylor Alison Swift is a multi-Grammy award-winning American singer/songwriter who, in 2010 at the age of 20, became the youngest artist in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2011 Swift was named Billboard's Woman of the Year. She also has been named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the Entertainer of the Year for both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, among many other accolades. As of this writing, she is also the top-selling digital artist in music history. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Andrea (Finlay), a one-time marketing executive, and Scott Kingsley Swift, a financial adviser.

Her ancestry includes German and English, as well as some Scottish, Irish, Welsh and 1/16th Italian. She was named after James Taylor , and her mother believed that if she had a gender neutral name it would help her forge a business career. Taylor spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was nine years old the family moved to Wyomissing, PA, where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. Taylor spent her summers at her parents' vacation home at the Jersey shore. Her first hobby was English horse riding. Her mother put her in a saddle when she was nine months old and Swift later competed in horse shows. At the age of nine she turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions of "Grease", "Annie", "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The Sound of Music". She traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. However, after a few years of auditioning in New York and not getting anything, she became interested in country music.

At age 11, after many attempts, Taylor won a local talent competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes ' "Big Deal", and was given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for Charlie Daniels at a Strausstown amphitheater. This interest in country music isolated Swift from her middle school peers. At age 12 she was shown by a computer repairman how to play three chords on a guitar, inspiring her to write her first song, "Lucky You". She had previously won a national poetry contest with a poem entitled "Monster in My Closet", but now began to focus on songwriting. She moved to Nashville at age 14, having secured an artist development deal with RCA Records. She left RCA Records when she was 15--the label wanted her to record the work of other songwriters and wait until she was 18 to release an album, but she felt ready to launch her career with her own material. At an industry showcase at Nashville's The Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta , a Dreamworks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records. Taylor was one of the new label's first signings.

Taylor released her debut album, "Taylor Swift", in October of 2006 and received generally positive reviews from music critics. The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading voice". Her single "Our Song" made her the youngest solo writer and singer of a #1 country song. The album sold 39,000 copies during its first week. In 2008 she released her second studio album, "Fearless". The lead single from the album, "Love Story", was released in September 2008 and became the second best-selling country single of all time, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Four more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.

It was the top-selling album of 2009 and brought Swift much crossover success. In September 2009 she became the first country music artist to win an MTV Video Music Award when "You Belong with Me" was named Best Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West , who had been involved in a number of other award show incidents. West declared Beyoncé Knowles 's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", nominated in the same category, to be "one of the best videos of all time". When Beyoncé later won the award for Video of the Year, she invited Taylor onstage to finish her speech. In November 2009 Taylor Swift became the youngest ever artist, and one of only six women, to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association. She released her third studio album in October 2010, "Speak Now", and wrote all the songs herself. She originally intended to call the album "Enchanted" but Scott Borchetta, her record label's CEO, felt the title did not reflect the album's more adult themes.

Swift toured throughout 2011 and early 2012 in support of "Speak Now". As part of the 13-month, 111-date world tour, Swift played seven shows in Asia, 12 in Europe, 80 in North America and 12 in Australasia (three dates on the US tour were rescheduled after she fell ill with bronchitis). The stage show was inspired by Broadway musical theatre, with choreographed routines, elaborate set-pieces, pyrotechnics and numerous costume changes. Swift invited many musicians to join her for one-off duets during the North American tour. Appearances were made by James Taylor, Jason Mraz , Shawn Colvin , Johnny Rzeznik , Andy Grammer , Tal Bachman , Justin Bieber , Selena Gomez , Nicki Minaj , Nelly , B.o.B. , Usher Raymond , Flo Rida , T.I. , Jon Foreman , Jim Adkins , Hayley Williams , Hot Chelle Rae , Ronnie Dunn , Darius Rucker , Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney . In May 2012 Taylor featured in B.o.B's song "Both of Us".

Swift's fourth studio album, "Red", was released on October 22, 2012. She wrote nine of the album's 16 songs alone; the remaining seven were co-written with Max Martin , Liz Rose , Dan Wilson , Ed Sheeran and Gary Lightbody . Nathan Chapman served as the album's lead producer but Jeff Bhasker , Butch Walker , Jacknife Lee , Dann Huff and Shellback (aka Shellback) also produced individual tracks. Chapman has said he encouraged Swift "to branch out and to test herself in other situations". She has described the collaborative process as "an apprenticeship" that taught her to "paint with different colors". "Red" examines Swift's attraction to drama-filled relationships; she believes that, since writing the record, such relationships no longer appeal to her. Musically, while there is some experimentation with "slick, electronic beats", the pop sheen is limited to a handful of tracks sprinkled among more recognizably Swiftian fare. "Rolling Stone" enjoyed "watching Swift find her pony-footing on Great Songwriter Mountain. She often succeeds in joining the Joni/ Carole King tradition of stark-relief emotional mapping . . .

Her self-discovery project is one of the best stories in pop." The Guardian described Swift as a "Brünnhilde of a rock star" and characterized "Red" as "another chapter in one of the finest fantasies pop music has ever constructed". "USA Today" felt that the "engaging" record saw Swift "write ever-more convincingly--and wittily and painfully--about the messy emotions of a young twenty something nearing the end of her transition from girl to woman". The "Los Angeles Times" noted the exploration of "more nuanced relationship issues" on "an unapologetically big pop record that opens new sonic vistas for her". As part of the "Red" promotional campaign, representatives from 72 worldwide radio stations were flown to Nashville during release week for individual interviews with Swift. She made television appearances on Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Good Morning America (1975), The View (1997), Late Show with David Letterman (1993), ABC News Nightline (1980) and 20/20: All Access Nashville with Katie Couric (2012).

She performed at Los Angeles' MTV VMAs and London's Teen Awards, and will also perform at Nashville's CMA Awards, Frankfurt's MTV Europe Music Awards, Los Angeles' AMA Awards and Sydney's ARIA Music Awards. Swift offered exclusive album promotions through Target, Papa John's and Walgreens. She became a spokesmodel for Keds sneakers, released her sophomore Elizabeth Arden fragrance and continued her partnerships with Cover Girl, Sony Electronics and American Greetings, as well as her unofficial brand tie-ins with Ralph Lauren and Shellys. The album's lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", was released in August 2012. The song became Swift's first #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist. Two further singles have since been released: "Begin Again" (country radio) and "I Knew You Were Trouble" (pop and international radio).In her career, as of May 2012, Swift has sold over 23 million albums and 54.5 million digital tracks worldwide.

Taylor Swift is only beginning to emerge as an acting talent, having voiced the role of Audrey in the animated feature The Lorax (2012). She also made appearances in the theatrical release Valentine's Day (2010) and in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). She contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games (2012) soundtrack: "Safe & Sound featuring The Civil Wars" and "Eyes Open". Taylor released her fifth album, titled "1989", on October 27, 2014. This album is when she finally made the complete transition from country to pop. She says that she will not be going to any Country Music Award shows. The album is named after the year she was born, and is a sort of '80s-sounding album, in the sense that it's more electronic. In March 2015 she began dating Scottish Disc Jockey Calvin Harris after having met at the Brit Awards in February.

Writes most of her songs about her exes Her songs usually tell a story Bright Red Lips Often performs with a red microphone At the beginning of her career: blonde ringlets Trivia (59) The love interest in her song, "Tim McGraw", is named Johnny. Taught herself to play guitar. Sister of Austin Swift (aka Austin K. Swift), a photographer. He photographed her "Fearless Tour". With her first #1 song "Our Song", at age 18 years and 9 days, became the fifth teenaged female singer to top the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart. The others were Jean Shepard (19 years, 9 months in August 1953 with "A Dear John Letter"), Tanya Tucker (14 years, 7 months in May 1973 with "What's Your Mama's Name"), Marie Osmond (14 years, 1 month in November 1973 with "Paper Roses") and LeAnn Rimes (14 years, 4 months in December 1996 with "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)"). Was ranked #57 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of 2008 list.

She grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania and her job was to rake Praying Mantis pods off the trees. (June 2008 - October 2008) Was in a relationship with Joe Jonas . Best friends with Selena Gomez and Emma Stone . She won the award for Best Female Video at the 2009 Video Music Awards. Good friends with Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams , Kellie Pickler , and Emma Watson . On November 11th, 2009, Taylor became the youngest singer to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award. She spent her summers through the age of 14 at the Jersey shore. Her family owned a home in Stone Harbor, NJ, a South Jersey resort town north of Cape May and south of Atlantic City. Had a cameo in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). She credits LeAnn Rimes as her main influence into a country music career. Swift stated on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) that she wanted to be a country singer after attending Rimes' concert.

She was a member of a local Saturday Night Live (1975)-inspired kid's sketch comedy group TheatreKids Live! while growing up in Pennsylvania. Her music influences include Dolly Parton , Shania Twain , LeAnn Rimes , Patsy Cline , and her grandmother, who was a professional opera singer. Her best friend Abigail Anderson, whom she's known since ninth grade, is mentioned in her song "Fifteen" from her "Fearless" album. She graduated in July 2008 from Hendersonville High School in Hendersonville, TN. (5/4/10) Named a spokeswoman for Cover Girl. (July 2009 - December 2009) Was in a relationship with Taylor Lautner . When she appeared at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (2009), she assisted magician David Copperfield with two illusions. First, he made her appear inside an apparently empty glass elevator, and in the second he sawed her in half in the same glass-sided boxes he used to saw Claudia Schiffer in half in his 1990s stage shows.

Ranked #31 in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" Women of 2010. (October 2010 - December 2010) Was in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal . Holds the rare distinction of having all of her released singles (excluding promotional singles and singles as a featured artist) reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Of those 12 singles, five have reached the Top 10, and three of those have reached the Top 5. Went to the same high school in Wyomissing, PA, as Jillian Murray before moving to Hendersonville, TN. When Beyoncé Knowles won the MTV Music Video award for Video of the Year, she set aside her acceptance speech in order to allow Taylor to finish her acceptance speech, for best female video, which had been interrupted by Kanye West hours earlier. She won the Entertainer of the Year" award at the 46th American Country Music Awards. Ranked #20 in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" Women of 2011. Her first song was called "Lucky You".

It took three attempts to get her driver's permit when she was 15. Ranked #61 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World". Ranked #53 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World". Nicknamed her car "Toyoat" because it is a Toyota. Named Billboard magazine's "Woman of the Year" for 2011 [October 12, 2011]. Named the 2011 "Entertainer of the Year" by the Academy of Country Music". [2011] Is a fan of Rihanna . At many of her concerts she comes out with a Minnesota Vikings jersey with the #13 on the back. The Vikings had it specially made for her. Is a big fan of Britney Spears and has a poster of Britney in her room. Her sophomore album, "Fearless", is the most awarded album in country music history.

It won the American Music Award for Favorite Country Album, the Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year, the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year, the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and the music industry's highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. At the age of 20, became the youngest artist in music history to win the coveted Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Wrote her hit song "Love Story" on her bedroom floor in 20 minutes. Gave a free showcase to her Brazilian fans on 9/13/12 in Rio de Janeiro to promote her "Red" album. It was her first time ever in Brazil. When asked by a fan if she was someone else (an actress), who would she be, she replied she'd like to be Gwyneth Paltrow , as she "is beautiful, cool and has beautiful kids". In early 2012 she assisted magician Franz Harary with the world premiere of a new illusion called "Slice-Her", in which she was sawed in half and her halves pulled apart while standing up and without any boxes hiding her body from view at any time. Is captivated by the poet Pablo Neruda .

She wrote her song "Teadrops On My Guitar" for a boy who she was in love with in high school and he only saw her as a friend. Keeps a journal and writes about how her day went. Good friends with Hailee Steinfeld , Behati Prinsloo , Ed Sheeran , Lena Dunham . One of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Carmine Antonio Baldi, was an Italian immigrant from Castelnuovo Cilento. Her other ancestry is German and English, and smaller amounts of Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Welsh, along with distant French, Swedish and Dutch. Has two cats, named 'Meredith" and "Olivia"; named after Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy (2005) and Detective Olivia Benson from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). Taylor Swift (Musician) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Taylor Swift Female Born Dec 13, 1989 Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music.

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SEE ALSO: Cara Delevigne, Dakota Johnson FaceTime with bestie <mark>Taylor Swift</mark> It didn\'t take long before Brad Long, former YouTuber and longtime internet troll, pounced on Delevingne\'s tweet to offer... Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Taylor Swift. CHILDHOOD Show Less With her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989 (2014), she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States. … Read More Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" reached number one in the US, Australia and Canada. The album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth person overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of all time.<br /><br /> As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

She is also the recipient of ten Grammy Awards, five Guinness World Records, one Emmy Award, 23 Billboard Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Brit Award. Swift is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albumsâincluding 27.1 million in the U.S.âand 130 million single downloads. She has appeared in Time 100 most influential people in the world (2010 and 2015), Forbes top-earning women in music (2011â15), Forbes 100 most powerful women (2015) and Forbes Celebrity 100 (2016). She was the youngest woman to be included in the third of these and ranked first in Celebrity 100. Read Less 1989 sold 1.28 million copies in the US during the first week of release and debuted atop the Billboard 200âthis made Swift the first act to have three albums sell more than one million copies in their opening release week, for which she earned a Guinness World Record.

As of February 2015, 1989 had sold over 8.6 million copies worldwide. The album's lead single, "Shake It Off", was released in August 2014 and debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. … Read More Others included the number-one singlesâ"Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" (featuring Kendrick Lamar); the top ten hitsâ"Style" and "Wildest Dreams"âand "Out of the Woods" and "New Romantics". The music video for "Blank Space" briefly became the fastest video to reach one billion views on Vevo. "Blank Space" and the video for "Bad Blood" won four accolades at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, with the latter winning for Video of the Year and Best Collaboration. Swift's headlining tour, the 1989 World Tour, running from May to December 2015, grossed over $250 million, and became one of the highest grossing tours of all time.

Read Less Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area. … Read More Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (Finlay), was a homemaker who worked previously as a mutual fund marketing executive. She has a younger brother named Austin. Swift spent the early years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township, Pennsylvania. She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns, before transferring to the Wyndcroft School. The family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.<br /><br /> At the age of nine, Swift became interested in musical theater and performed in four Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions. She also traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. Swift later shifted her focus toward country music inspired by Shania Twain's songs, which made her "want to just run around the block four times and daydream about everything". She spent her weekends performing at local festivals and events.

After watching a documentary about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a music career. At the age of eleven, she traveled with her mother to visit Nashville record labels and submitted a demo tape of Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers. However, she was rejected since "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. Read Less Born on December 13, 1989. TEENAGE 2003 - 2005 2 More Events 2003 13 Years Old … So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different". <br /><br />When Swift was about 12 years old, a computer repairman taught her how to play three chords on a guitar, leading to her first effort as a songwriter, "Lucky You". Read Less In 2003, Swift and her parents started working with New York-based music manager Dan Dymtrow.

… Read More With his help, Swift modelled for Abercrombie & Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign, had an original song included on a Maybelline compilation CD, and attended meetings with major record labels. After performing original songs at an RCA Records showcase, Swift was given an artist development deal and began making frequent trips to Nashville with her mother.<br /><br /> To help Swift break into country music, her father transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch when she was 14, and the family relocated to a lakefront house in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift attended public high school, but after two years transferred to the Aaron Academy, which through homeschooling could accommodate her touring schedule, and she graduated a year early with excellent grades.<br /><br /> In Nashville, Swift worked with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally, and The Warren Brothers. She eventually formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose. They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Rose thought that the sessions were "some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was just her editor. She'd write about what happened in school that day.

She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she'd come in with the most incredible hooks". Swift was signed by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house, but left RCA Records when she was 14. Read Less 2005 15 Years Old At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a DreamWorks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records. … Read More She became one of the first signings, and her father purchased a three percent stake in the fledgling company at an estimated cost of $120,000. The singer began working on her eponymous debut album shortly after signing the record deal. She persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman, with whom she felt she had the right "chemistry". Swift wrote three of the album's songs alone, and co-wrote the remaining eight with writers Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall, Brian Maher, and Angelo Petraglia. Read Less Show Less … Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.

Throughout her career, she has become one of the most popular female contemporary singers. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which has received much media attention. <br /><br />Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at age 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. Read Less The release of her eponymous debut album in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. … Read More The album's third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States. The album won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner.

Read Less Big Machine Records was still in its infancy on the release of the lead single, "Tim McGraw", in June 2006, and Swift and her mother helped "stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio". She spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift with a radio tour and television appearances. … Read More Borchetta has said that record industry peers disliked his signing of a 16-year-old singer-songwriter at first but that Swift tapped into a previously unknown marketâteenage girls who listen to country music. Following "Tim McGraw", four additional singles were released throughout 2007 and 2008: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No". All were highly successful on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, with "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" both reaching number one. For the former, Swift became the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the chart. "Teardrops on My Guitar" became a moderate commercial success, reaching number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100.

Read Less Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. … Read More Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading voice". As of August 2016 the album has sold over 7.75 million copies worldwide. Read Less Show Less Swift also released the holiday album Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection in October 2007 and the EP Beautiful Eyes in July 2008. … Read More She promoted her debut album extensively as the opening act for other artists on their tours. Read Less Swift won a number of accolades for Taylor Swift. She was one of the recipients of the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist of the Year in 2007, becoming the youngest person to be honored with the title. … Read More She also won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for Best New Artist, the Academy of Country Music Awards' Top New Female Vocalist, and the American Music Awards' Favorite Country Female Artist honor.

Read Less Show Less She was also nominated for Best New Artist at the 2008 Grammy Awards. … Read More In July of that year, Swift began a romance with Joe Jonas that ended three months later. Read Less Swift's second studio album, Fearless, was released on November 11, 2008. … Read More The lead single, "Love Story", was released in September 2008 and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Four more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two. Read Less During the 2008 presidential campaign, Swift promoted the Every Woman Counts campaign, aimed at engaging women in the political process, and was one of many country stars to record a PSA for the Vote (For Your) Country campaign.

… Read More She stated: "I don't think it's my job to try and influence people which way they should vote." Following President Obama's inauguration, she told Rolling Stone that she supported the president: "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive. I'm so glad this was my first election."<br /><br /> In a 2012 interview, Swift remarked that in spite of keeping herself "as educated and informed as possible", she does not discuss politics, fearing that it might influence other people. Swift has spent time with the Kennedy family and has spoken of her admiration for Ethel Kennedy. Swift is also a feminist. She has spoken out against LGBT discrimination. Following the 2008 murder of Larry King, she recorded a GLSEN PSA to combat hate crimes. On the first anniversary of King's death, Swift told Seventeen that her parents taught her "never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion". In 2011, the music video for Swift's anti-bullying song "Mean" dealt in part with homophobia in high schools; the video was later nominated for an MTV VMA social activism award.

The New York Times believes she is part of "a new wave of young (and mostly straight) women who are providing the soundtrack for a generation of gay fans coming to terms with their identity in a time of turbulent and confusing cultural messages". Read Less Show Less In 2009, Swift appeared in the late-night show Saturday Night Live followed by her film debut the following year in Valentine's Day. … Read More Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at number one in the United States and the single "Mean" won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red (2012), yielded the successful singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble". Read Less The album debuted at number one on Billboard 200 and was the top-selling album of 2009 in the United States. … Read More The album received promotion from Swift's first concert tour, Fearless Tour, which grossed over $63 million. Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless, a concert film, was aired on television and later released on DVD and Blu-ray.

Swift also performed as a supporting act for Keith Urban's Escape Together World Tour.<br /><br /> In 2009, the music video for "You Belong with Me" was named MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West. The incident was the subject of controversy and frequent media attention, resulting in many Internet memes. James Montgomery of MTV argued that the incident and subsequent media attention turned Swift into "a bona-fide mainstream celebrity". Read Less … Fearless was named Album of the Year and Best Country Album, while "White Horse" was named Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Swift was the youngest artist ever to win Album of the Year. During the ceremony, Swift sang "You Belong with Me" and "Rhiannon" with Stevie Nicks. Her vocal performance received negative reviews and a media backlash. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times found it "refreshing to see someone so gifted make the occasional flub" and described Swift as "the most important new pop star of the past few years". Swift became the youngest ever artist to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.

Fearless also won the Association's Album of the Year award. Other awards won by Fearless included two American Music Awards: Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album. Read Less Billboard named her 2009's Artist of the Year. … Read More Swift contributed backing vocals to John Mayer's "Half of My Heart", a single featured on his fourth album, Battle Studies (2009). She co-wrote and recorded "Best Days of Your Life" with Kellie Pickler, and co-wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrackâ"You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and "Crazier". Swift also provided vocals for Boys Like Girls' "Two Is Better Than One". She contributed two songs to the Valentine's Day soundtrack, including "Today Was a Fairytale", which became her first number one on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. Read Less Swift made her acting debut in a 2009 episode of CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing a rebellious teenager. … Read More The New York Times noted that the character allowed Swift to be "a little bit naughty, and credibly so".

Later that year, Swift both hosted and performed as the musical guest for an episode of Saturday Night Live. Entertainment Weekly described her as "this season's best Saturday Night Live host so far", noting that she "was always up for the challenge, seemed to be having fun, and helped the rest of the cast nail the punchlines". Read Less While filming Valentine's Day in October 2009âSwift's feature film acting debutâshe began a romantic relationship with co-star Taylor Lautner; however, they broke up later that year. … Read More The romantic comedy, released the following year, saw her play the ditzy girlfriend of a high school jock, a role in which Los Angeles Times found "serious comedic potential". In a particularly scathing review, the critic for Variety deemed her "entirely undirected", arguing that "she needs to find a skilled director to tamp her down and channel her obviously abundant energy". Read Less TWENTIES Fearless won Swift many accolades. She garnered four Grammy Awards in 2010. Later in 2010, she briefly dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

In August 2010, Swift released "Mine", which entered the United States at number three, making Swift the second female artist in the history of the Hot 100 (after Mariah Carey) to debut multiple tracksâthe other one was "Today Was a Fairytale" at number twoâin the top five during a calendar year. The song was the lead single from her third studio album, Speak Now, whose songs she wrote by herself. Speak Now, released on October 25, 2010, was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, with opening week sales of one million copies, the 16th album to do so. … Read More Later, it became the fastest-selling digital album by a female artist, with 278,000 downloads in a week. Read Less For this feat, Swift received a listing in the 2010 Guinness World Records; she earned another entry in the book after 10 of Speak Nows tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first female to achieve the feat.

… Read More Three of the album's singlesâ"Mine", "Back to December", and "Mean"âpeaked within the top ten in Canada.<br /><br /> The song "Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. She performed the song during the ceremony. Read Less Claire Suddath of Time felt she "delivered her comeback on-key and with a vengeance", while Jayme Deerwester of USA Today remarked that the criticism in 2010 seemed to have "made her a better songwriter and live performer". Show Less Swift won various other awards for Speak Now, including Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association (2010 and 2011), Woman of the Year by Billboard (2011), and Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music (2011 and 2012) and the Country Music Association in 2011. At the American Music Awards of 2011, Swift won Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album.

Swift embarked on the Speak Now World Tour, which ran from February 2011 to March 2012, and grossed over $123 million. In November 2011, she released her first live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live. … Read More The following month, Swift contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack albumâ"Safe & Sound", co-written and recorded with The Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett, and "Eyes Open". The former was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Read Less Show Less After providing vocals for B.o.B's "Both of Us" in May 2012, Swift dated political heir Conor Kennedy from July to September 2012. … Read More In August, Swift released "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"âthe lead single from her fourth studio album, Red. An international success, it became her first number-one in the US and New Zealand. The song reached the top slot on an iTunes chart 50 minutes after its release, earning the "Fastest Selling Single in Digital History" listing in the Guinness World Records.

Swift released the album's second single "Begin Again" in October. It reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. Other singles released from the album included: "I Knew You Were Trouble", "22", "Everything Has Changed", "The Last Time", and "Red". "I Knew You Were Trouble" was a major commercial success, peaking at number two in the United States.<br /><br /> Red was released on October 22, 2012, incorporating new genres, such as heartland rock, dubstep and dance-pop. The album was a critical and commercial success, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.21 million copies. This marked the highest opening sales in a decade, and made Swift the first female to have two million-selling album openings, a record recognized by Guinness World Records. Promoting the album, Swift embarked on the Red Tour, which ran from March 2013 to June 2014 and grossed over $150 million. Red earned several accolades, including four nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

Read Less … Its single "I Knew You Were Trouble" won Best Female Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Read Less Swift was named Best Female Country Artist at the 2012 American Music Awards and Artist of the Year at the 2013 ceremony. She received the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist Award for the fifth and sixth consecutive years in 2012 and 2013, respectively. … Read More Swift was also honored by the Association with a special Pinnacle Award, making her the second recipient of the accolade after Garth Brooks. Read Less … Outside of music, Swift voiced Audrey, a tree lover, in the animated film The Lorax (2012), made a cameo in the sitcom New Girl (2013), and had a supporting role in the film adaptation of The Giver (2014). Read Less She dated British singer Harry Styles from December 2012 to January 2013. … Swift is a supporter of the arts and donated $75,000 to Nashville's Hendersonville High School in 2010 to help refurbish the school auditorium.

In 2012, she pledged $4 million to fund the building of a new education center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Also in 2012, Swift partnered with textbook rental company Chegg to donate $60,000 to the music departments of six US colleges. Swift also promotes children's literacy. In 2009, she donated $250,000 to various schools around the country for improvement of education. Her other endeavors to promote literacy include donating 6,000 Scholastic books to Reading Public Library, Pennsylvania; 14,000 books to Nashville Public Library, Tennessee; 2,000 Scholastic books to the Reading Hospital Child Health Center's early literacy program; and 25,000 books to New York City schools in 2015. <br /><br />In 2007, she launched a campaign to protect children from online predators, in partnership with the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police. In 2009, Swift recorded a Sound Matters public service announcement (PSA) to make listeners aware of the importance of listening "responsibly" to prevent hearing impairment.

Swift has donated items for auction to a large number of charities, including: the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the UNICEF Tap Project, MusiCares, and Feeding America. As a recipient of the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year in 2011, Swift donated $25,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Tennessee. Read Less In 2012, Swift participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, performing "Ronan", a song she wrote in memory of a four-year-old boy who died of neuroblastoma. … Read More The song was made available for digital download with all proceeds donated to cancer-related charities. In 2014, she donated $100,000 to the V Foundation for Cancer Research, and $50,000 to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The singer made private visits to hospitals to meet with sick patients and to support them. Swift has encouraged young people to volunteer in their local communities as part of Global Youth Service Day.

Read Less Show Less In 2013, Swift co-wrote "Sweeter Than Fiction" with Jack Antonoff for the One Chance soundtrack, and received a Best Original Song nomination at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. … Read More She provided guest vocals for a McGraw song titled "Highway Don't Care", featuring guitar work by Urban. Swift performed "As Tears Go By" with The Rolling Stones in Chicago as part of their 50 & Counting tour. Read Less She also joined Florida Georgia Line on stage during their set at the 2013 Country Radio Seminar to sing "Cruise". Show Less In March 2014, Swift relocated to New York City. … Read More Around this time, she was working on her fifth studio album, 1989, with writers Antonoff, Martin, Shellback, Imogen Heap, Ryan Tedder and Ali Payami. She promoted the album through various campaigns, including inviting fans to secret album-listening sessions, called the "1989 Secret Sessions". Credited as her "first documented, official pop album", it marks a departure from her previous country albums.

The album was released on October 27, 2014 to positive reviews. Read Less Swift was named Billboards Woman of the Year in 2014, becoming the first artist to win the award twice. … Read More Also that year, she received the Dick Clark Award for Excellence at the American Music Awards. Read Less … She became the first woman, and fifth person overall, to win the first of these twice. <br /><br />Prior to 1989s release, Swift stressed the importance of albums to artists and fans. Read Less In November 2014, she removed her entire catalog from Spotify, arguing that the streaming company's ad-supported, free service undermined the premium service, which provides higher royalties for songwriters. Show Less In 2015, "Shake It Off" was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year and Swift won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist. … Read More The singer was one of eight artists to receive a 50th Anniversary Milestone Award at the 2015 Academy of Country Music Awards.

Read Less In 2015, Swift performed "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Shake It Off" with Paul McCartney at the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special after-party, and joined Kenny Chesney to sing "Big Star" on the opening night of his Big Revival Tour in Nashville. In March 2015, Swift started dating Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris. … Read More By June 2015, the duo were ranked as the highest-paid celebrity couple over the past year by Forbes with combined earnings of over $146 million. In August, Swift addressed her mother's cancer diagnosis, and encouraged others to get a medical checkup. Read Less In June 2015, Swift criticized Apple Music in an open letter for not offering royalties to artists during the streaming service's free three-month trial period and stated that she would pull 1989 from the catalog. … Read More The following day, Apple announced that it would pay artists during the free trial period, and Swift agreed to stream 1989 on the streaming service.

Swift's intellectual property rights management and holding company, TAS Rights Management, filed for 73 trademarks related to the singer and the 1989 era memes. Read Less … Rolling Stone remarks upon her polite manner: "If this is Swift's game face, it must be tattooed on because it never drops." The magazine also takes note of her "ease with glad-handing", and The Hollywood Reporter credits her as "the Best People Person since Bill Clinton". While presenting Swift an award for her humanitarian endeavors in 2012, Michelle Obama viewed her as a singer who "has rocketed to the top of the music industry but still keeps her feet on the ground, someone who has shattered every expectation of what a 22-year-old can accomplish". Swift considers her to be a role model. Swift is one of the most followed people on social media, and is known for her friendly interactions with her fans. She has delivered holiday gifts to fans by mail and in person, dubbed "Swiftmas". She considers it her "responsibility" to be conscious of her influence on young fans, and has said that her fans are "the longest and best relationship I have ever had". <br /><br />Bloomberg L.P.

deems Swift a sex symbol, but unlike her contemporaries, she is modest in appearance, and according to New York Daily News, finds it easy to "keep her clothes on". Swift was named an Icon of American Style by Vogue in 2011. In 2014 she topped People annual best dressed list. Read Less In 2015, she was named Woman of the Year at the Elle Style Awards, and ranked first in Maxim Hot 100 list. … Read More Swift has also appeared in various power listings. She was included in Times annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2010 and 2015.<br /><br /> From 2011â15, she appeared in the top three of Forbes Top-Earning Women In Music with earnings of $45 million, $57 million, $55 million, $64 million and $80 million respectively. Read Less In 2015, she became the youngest woman ever to be included on Forbes 100 most powerful women list, ranked at number 64.

Question: The album ‘1989’ which became the biggest selling album in the USA in 2014 and produced 5 top ten singles is by which Brit award-winning singer/songwriter?
Answer: Taylor Swift